Pheno Hunting with Crocketts Tangie

Ive just popped 12 Crockett Family Farms Tangie. I want to keep one female for a mother plant, so I'll be taking clones of each so I have my choice once the females flower.
What do you all look for in a keeper? Vigor? Yield? Scent? Looks? Taste? I wanna make sure that I keep the best one.

ide bloom them then reveg the best.

Ill be giving all the males to a buddy so he can collect pollen. Hoping to have at least 6 females to choose from.

I guess it depends on what you want to do with the final product. if it's all personal then I would be looking for taste and effect. If it's a commercial operation then you need to add yield, health and finishing time

I always go for aromatics and the high. Yield is secondary to me, quality #1.

If you're really hoping for female seeds, Dutch Passion suggests that:

"From literature and our own findings it appears that the growth of a male or female plant from seed, except for the predisposition in the gender chromosomes, also depends on various environmental factors. The environmental factors that influence gender are:

• a higher nitrogen concentration will give more females.
• a higher potassium concentration will give more males.
• a higher humidity will give more females.
• a lower temperature will give more females.
• more blue light will give more females.
• Fewer hours of light will give more females.

It is important to start these changes at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks, before reverting to standard conditions."

I have not done enough personal research to really say if this works or not. I do use high N soil under blue LEDs for veg and have a great female rate though.

Vigor? Yield? Scent? Looks? Taste? are all important. Strong branching and plant structure are also important. Clones can grow a little different than seed. So hang onto them and take a look at them as the clones grow.

Here's mine at Day 42. As far as I'm concerned, this one's a keeper. The smell is amazing and the yield is going to be very respectable. I'll let you know about taste in a few weeks.

LamontCranston said:

I always go for aromatics and the high. Yield is secondary to me, quality #1.

If you're really hoping for female seeds, Dutch Passion suggests that:

"From literature and our own findings it appears that the growth of a male or female plant from seed, except for the predisposition in the gender chromosomes, also depends on various environmental factors. The environmental factors that influence gender are:

• a higher nitrogen concentration will give more females.
• a higher potassium concentration will give more males.
• a higher humidity will give more females.
• a lower temperature will give more females.
• more blue light will give more females.
• Fewer hours of light will give more females.

It is important to start these changes at the three-pairs-of-leaves stage and continue for two or three weeks, before reverting to standard conditions."

I have not done enough personal research to really say if this works or not. I do use high N soil under blue LEDs for veg and have a great female rate though.

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I have heard sex is determined when the seed is created, and environmental factors don't matter, that's why they can tell the sex of a plant right away, seeds apparently got chromosomes like humans.

http://www.phylosbioscience.com/rapid-cannabis-sexing/